Climbing The Charts

Singer-songwriter Jack Ingram (’93) is on a winning streak. His 2006 platinum-ranked album, “Live: Wherever You Are,” launched two Billboard Top 40 country singles. One of them, “Wherever You Are,” peaked at No. 1. The 2007 release “This Is It,” his first studio album in six years, reached No. 4 on the country charts. Recently he has appeared with Toby Keith, Sheryl Crow and Martina McBride. Ingram got his start writing songs and performing in local bars while studying psychology in SMU’s Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences. “Music and psychology come from the same place,” he says. “It’s about studying why people tick.”